During its rise under Coach Brian O’Connor, the Virginia baseball program has come to know what life can be like as the No. 1 team in the country. The Cavaliers attained that lofty status twice — in 2010 and 2011. Never before, though, had Virginia earned that sort of recognition from two different preseason publications, a distinction that changed when Baseball America and Perfect Game released their rankings last month. So O’Connor, ever the pragmatist, made sure his team understood just how little the preseason ranking means as the Cavaliers look to return to the College W...
(By Steven Rhoads, politics professor) It’s always easier to lament a problem than to find a viable solution to it. And that principle goes double for the hook-up culture. The problems are obvious: emotional struggles, sexually transmitted diseases, distrust between the sexes, a shortage of fulfilling relationships. The solutions — or at least the factors that can lessen the prevalence of the hook-up culture and foster healthier dating relationships — are more complicated.
A.E. Dick Howard, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Virginia, said that Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, in discussing the harm the Defense of Marriage Act has done to same-sex couples and their children, has essentially opened the door to a number of federal suits, including Bostic v. Rainey. “Kennedy’s opinion is, in a sense, a road map for the attack now being made by plaintiffs attacking bans on same-sex marriage in state and federal courts around the country,” Howard said.
It’s not easy to undo a conviction. “It took a team of half a dozen attorneys, dozens of law students, a pro bono law firm, a legal aid justice center and two clinics at U-Va. law school,” said Matthew Engle, director of the Innocence Project at the University of Virginia School of Law, which helped Coker.
A bill was killed last week that would have allowed students to hire attorneys for representation when dealing with university disciplinary actions after officials at Virginia public universities expressed concern about multiple problems the bill would pose.
As soon as it happened, Kelsey Wolfe said she knew she was significantly hurt.
Depending on your, and your advisor's, preferences, you may want to write an individual development plan as soon as you begin your postdoc. This document should spell out your goals for up to five years ahead. "I can't emphasize enough how much doing a self-assessment tells you where you stand versus where you want to be," says Darwin Operario, a member of the National Postdoctoral Association's board of directors and a research associate at the University of Virginia.
Recovery House was designed to help students break an addiction they are facing, whether it’s drugs or alcohol. Recovery House allows students to balance both their education and recovery. Fairfield is the first Jesuit school to start a Recovery House. However, 17 other schools are involved in the program, including University of Virginia and Rutgers.
Jerry Stenger, the director of the state climatology office at the University of Virginia, calls today's storm "a classic scenario." He said the combined moisture and cold air sets up for a good snowfall. "The plentiful cold air will assure that this is likely to be an all-snow event,'' Stenger said.
(By Steven E. Rhoads, professor of politics) Valentine’s Day in the 21st century means fewer heart-shaped candy boxes for college women than they would have received in the 20th century. Some women with steady, longstanding boyfriends may get a treat, but casual sex — the hook-up — has made dating much less common.
Alton Lane sells custom suits, shirts, blazers and trousers largely by appointment. Shirts start at $89, and suits start at $595. Owners Peyton Jenkins and Colin Hunter, both University of Virginia graduates and both Anglophiles, named their company after an unassuming cobblestone street in London. They launched Alton Lane in 2009 with a 450-square-foot location in New York and have opened stores in Boston, Washington and Dallas.
There are plenty of other great public colleges in the United States worth checking out, ranging from the University of Texas at Austin to the University of Virginia.
Many Virginia state colleges, including the University of Virginia, Virginia Military Institute and the College of William & Mary are supporting a benefits bill. These schools along with JMU are supporting a bill that would allow waivers that would cut tuition by almost 50 percent for students of faculty members.
The University of Virginia will launch its newest free online course on an appropriate theme on Presidents Day. The course, “Age of Jefferson,” will be taught by Peter Onuf, a professor emeritus at U.Va. and co-host of the public radio show “BackStory with the American History Guys.”
Robert O’Neil, former president of and professor of law at the University of Virginia, and an expert on faculty free speech issues, said via email that the latest decision from the appeals court added to the view he shares that Garcetti should not be applied to higher education. The new decision has “a level of certainty and conviction -- a slightly sharper edge, if you will -- which further narrows adverse inferences from Garcetti,” he said.
Using existing structural capacity, the University of Virginia added 127,000 sq ft of new space to its Charlottesville teaching hospital, the University of Virginia Medical Center.
(Editorial) Seeking justice, they went through a succession of lawyers. They finally landed at the University of Virginia School of Law. It was the best thing that could have happened.
Andrew Walker discusses the article Red States, Blue States, and Divorce: Understanding the Impact of Conservative Protestantism on Regional Variation in Divorce Rates with Dr. Bradford Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies.
Readers of the Richmond Times-Dispatch in the late 1990s might remember Andrew Leahey as a contributor to inSync, a section of the newspaper that featured young writers. Leahey’s now a recording artist based in Nashville. His work with inSync turned out to be a career springboard, though not in the way he originally intended.
A group of students at the University of Virginia may have just created the worst college a cappella group in the country – on purpose. According to UVA student newspaper The Cavalier Daily, student-singers founded the Virginia No Tones in order to give non-experienced singers a chance to do a cappella.